AEM EMS vs Hondata - Tuner-Junction

DCxMagus · #1 (**permalink**) March 7th, 2006, 09:04 PM

Car: 2000 base level prelude

These are my fuel solutions I am looking at mostly, I haven't ruled out chrome or uberdata just yet as they seem like good programs as well.

How much more tunability does the AEM EMS give you? is it worth the almost grand more that it would cost instead of swaping to OBD1 and getting a P72 chip it with a S300 and call it a day?

I dont want something like a V-AFC or any piggyback becuase they don't give me the tunability I want, yes the car will be daily driven and I understand the "hardships" I may go thru while set up a stand-alone fuel solution but to me it's worth it

I'm just trying to find the right one for me heres how I see it. The EMS is complete plug and play and I think allow me to control nearly every aspect of the car. Hondata I will need to find a good P72 ECU, OBD2a - OBD1 harness have it chipped and put it in. Both are reverisable and while tuning I will always be able to plug the stock ECU back in if I have to get to work or something and I can't finish a tune (I dont plan on tuning while I have work but still if my house catchs on fire and I haven't gotten the lean bug out between 4-5K while switching to VTEC its nice to be able to do). ANyway

anyone experianced in both of these systems that can give me a kinda pro/con list for the two?

EDIT sorry forgot to add.

I will be using an AEm WB02 sensor and gauge type to tune with so the comptability with the EMS and that is a plus as well is it copmpatable with hondata?

98CivicEK · #2 (**permalink**) March 7th, 2006, 09:32 PM

i havn't had a lot of expirience with tuning systems yet. but the all around capabilties of the AEM system are what the big issue is. though hondata, uberdata and crome are all very good sost effective, compared to the aem unit, they just don't have the capabilities that the aem has.

i personally would just use uberdata or crome, since my build isn't going to be some huge undertaking with more hp than my car can handle. depending on what your goals are with your car, i'd say go with what suites your budget. and what you need the tune to do.

Blake · #3 (**permalink**) March 8th, 2006, 03:02 AM

i tune with crome and its nice and all, but you get what you pay for. Crome is free for a reason. The setup is whats a bitch. Sometimes you have bugs that wont allow you to connect with the ecu or the datalogging program wont connect with the RTP datalogger and you essentially wont be able to datalog. But thats what you get for using a free program. I just learned to deal with it since im not paying 500 dollars for a program that Crome can do just as good.

Hondata s300 is on point with AEM just that its not a standalone ECU in itself. S300 can do anything AEM can do at a cheaper price. It also has features like auto-tune which can help you get started on the basemap. There are so many debates about hondata vs AEM but personally i think it depends on which one you are more comfortable with. And being comfortable with a program takes experience and research.

I chose to tune with crome because it met my needs and the user interface was pretty nice. It just sucks that you have to do a bunch of steps to accomplish one thing, whereas in hondata you push a function key and bam, it happens.

DCxMagus · #4 (**permalink**) March 10th, 2006, 12:04 PM

ok going to go with a P72 and have it sockected with hondata s300 most likely

A_White_Gs-R · #5 (**permalink**) March 18th, 2006, 05:02 PM

I personally liked the s200. I went with it. 275 and all i gotta do is buy the clutch switch for the 2step.